14.9
Chapter 14, Verse 9
सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत। ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे सञ्जयत्युत৷৷
sattvaṅ sukhē sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata. jñānamāvṛtya tu tamaḥ pramādē sañjayatyuta৷৷
Translation
Purity brings happiness, Passion commotion, and Ignorance, which obscures wisdom, leads to a life of failure.
Translation — Purohit Swami
Commentary
सत्त्वम् purity, सुखे to happiness, सञ्जयति attaches, रजः active force, कर्मणि to action, भारत O Bharata, ज्ञानम् knowledge, आवृत्य shrouding, तु verily, तमः inertia, प्रमादे to heedlessness, सञ्जयति attaches, उत but. Commentary: Just as a dark cloud enshrouds the sun, so also Tamas envelops knowledge or the light of the Self. Tamas creates an attachment for heedlessness, that is, ignorance or forgetfulness of duty or the nonperformance of necessary (obligatory) duties.
Commentary — Swami Sivananda
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.